Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-02-08
PARNElL TAKES THE FLOOR.
He Tells Parliament That tho Irish
Members VIM Run Things.

He Tells Parliament That The Irish
Members WIN Run Things.
LONDON, Feb. s.-Parnell moved his
amendment to the address in reply 10 the
queens speech in the commons Monday
night The amendment is to the effect that
the remedy for the present condition Of Irish
affairs need not be looked for in an increase
of the vigorous measures adopted by the
government recently, but will be found in
the application of laws and system of gov
ernment SO reformed as to meet the needs
and secure the confidence of the people 81
ireland, this having been shown by the fact
that in cases where landlords have granted
tenants such reductions as the prices OF
pastoral and agricultural produce demanded,
the relations between owners and occupiers
have not been disturbed.
In moving the amendment Parnell said the
government seemed to contemplate the re-
newal of coercion in Ireland at an early
date. Coercion would never improve the
situation. The result of the proposed altera-
ton of criminal procedure would be that Sir
Michael Hicks Beach and the viceroy of Ire
land would he compelled to ask parliament
for additional coercion Mr.. Beach, he said,
wanted TO crush the plan of campaign" by
throwing its authors into Jail By the adop-
ton of this means the work of suppression
would only begin Secret societies would the.
arise, and then agrariGn and political crimes
be revived
The government, Parnell said, had bean
guilty Of unprecedented action III prescott
ing Dillon, suppressing the Sligo meetings
and excluding Catholics from juries. Al
Glenheigh the offer Of the landlords 10 &C
cept half years rent in settlement looked
generous, but when il was considered that
the costs amounted TO more than two year,
rent, the semblance of generosity accom-
panyng the offer van shed. at onca. The
National league had never interfere,i between
landlord ami tenant until the evictions began
and II yet remained to be seen whether OF
not the plan" was Illegal
The government talked loudly about the
robbery Of landlords b. tenants, but almost
every title to land in Ireland, and England,
700, was founded upon robbery, and the land.
lords had long been robblng their tenants OF
the products of their labor The Tories
would not be able to administer their powers
of oppression under a constitutional govern
ment, nor could they do 50 while the Irish
uleuioeis sat III pdTlldmenC II the govern
ment would refrain from enforcing policy
Of evaporation, the IRISH people would
speedily show the injustice of the charge
that they were not lava biding
Hugh Holmes attorney general of Ire
land, declared that the government woul
not accept single proposition contained in
the amendment of Parnell The dynamite
threats of the Irish in America coull not
move the government. Speaking in a more
general sense, the government would at the
proper time submit to the house remedial
legislation which would give the utmost ben
eht to ireland, consistent with the preserva-
ton of the union.
John Dill on denounced the Language of
Holmes and..said that it Ill became one of the
queens advisers to prejudice jury which
he intended to pack. Irelani, Dillon said
haved English law, which had uniformly
punished prisons charged with minor of
fenses In the south and west. while il con
3onci Orange outrases in the north